When a woman was having an affair with a Nassau County, N.Y., police officer, it caused her “severe and substantial emotional damage.” So she sued the department for negligence, saying the county should have stopped him. (The claim “defies imagination,” said a county attorney.)

A fraternity brother filed suit for injuries when he fell off a deck after being startled by a bottle rocket that was fired out of a fellow brother’s … well, it wasn’t a bottle.

And, adding to the many law student/law school lawsuits in the past few years, a student at Lincoln Memorial University and the John Duncan School of Law in Tennessee said she wasted $80,000 on law school tuition — because she did not complete her undergraduate degree and is ineligible to take the bar exam.